In the same way Victorian journalist Henry Mayhew reported on the life of the working classes in his articles published…
Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey was a satirical and experimental novel. Prose was a new form for the Romantics and…
Amy L Blair’s essay entitled ‘Misreading The House of Mirth’ is an investigation into the reading practises at the turn…
Who is the man of the crowd in Poe’s tale, what is his critical and narrative function and what wider…
The 19th Century was rich in women writers and characters. They introduced a woman’s perspective in literary writing which…
It might sound strange calling a blog post “What a Year” in the middle of June but my academic year…
The Romantics believed in making everything beautiful. Everyday themes such as nature, death, poverty and childhood were taken very carefully…
Matthew Winston’s essay is looking at the way in which Hunter S Thompson wrote as a gonzo journalist compared with…
The early modern period span from the late 15th Century to the late 18th Century. This was a period of…
According to Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory of Post-Modernism, ‘Modernism is the name given to the movement which dominated the…